"Gary Ball became the first to complete the ""Seven Summits"" in seven months. Using the Bass list, they started with Everest on 10 May 1990, and finished with Vinson on 12 December 1990, hours before the seven-month deadline. In 1992, Junko Tabei became the first woman to complete the ""Seven Summits"". Mary ""Dolly"" Lefever became the first American woman to climb the ""Seven Summits"" on March 11, 1993, when she climbed Australia's Mount Kosciuszko. Earlier in 1993, she had become the oldest surviving woman to have reached the summit of Mt. Everest; she was 47 years old. In January 1996,"
"five summits. In 1970, the Japanese mountaineer and adventurer Naomi Uemura (1941-1984) was the first person to reach five of the Seven Summits including Mount Everest. He climbed Mont Blanc (1966), Kilimanjaro (1966), Aconcagua (1968), Mount Everest (1970 solo) and Denali (1970 solo). After the first solo trip to the North Pole (1978), he planned to go on his own to Antarctica to climb Mount Vinson. In preparation for the Antarctica expedition, he did a solo winter ascent of Denali (1984). On the descent he disappeared in a winter storm. In 1978, the Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner was the first"
"Japan, an organization working at a global level to preserve mountain environments. One of the trust's projects was to build an incinerator to burn climbers' rubbish. She also led and participated in ""clean-up"" climbs in Japan and the Himalayas. Tabei was married to Masanobu Tabei, a climber she met while climbing in Japan in 1965. The couple had two children: a daughter, Noriko, and a son, Shinya. Tabei was diagnosed with cancer in 2012, however she continued with many of her mountaineering activities. She died in a hospital in Kawagoe on 20 October 2016. Junko Tabei Shitei was born in"
"Tamae Watanabe Tamae Watanabe (Japanese , ""Watanabe Tamae""; born 21 November 1938 Yamanashi Prefecture) is a Japanese mountain climber. After completing study at Tsuru University she worked as public office employee of Kanagawa Prefecture. It was at this time, at age 28, she began mountain climbing. In 1977 she climbed Mount McKinley. She then climbed Mont Blanc, Mount Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua. After her retirement she returned to her hometown and in May 2002 she became the then oldest woman to climb Mount Everest. Ten years later, in May 2012, she broke her own record, when she, now at the age"
"the summit of the highest peak on Earth, Mount Everest, on 29 May 1953. On 7 September 2017, the name ""Hillary Montes"" was officially approved together with the names of Tombaugh Regio and twelve other nearby surface features. The Hillary Montes rise to high from base to peak, about half as high as the Norgay Montes. The Hillary Montes are similar in height to that of the peak of Mount Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan, above sea level. Hillary Montes The Hillary Montes (less officially, Hillary Mountains) are mountains that reach above the surface of the dwarf planet Pluto."
"of 73, again scaled Mount Everest. Tamae Watanabe Tamae Watanabe (Japanese , ""Watanabe Tamae""; born 21 November 1938 Yamanashi Prefecture) is a Japanese mountain climber. After completing study at Tsuru University she worked as public office employee of Kanagawa Prefecture. It was at this time, at age 28, she began mountain climbing. In 1977 she climbed Mount McKinley. She then climbed Mont Blanc, Mount Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua. After her retirement she returned to her hometown and in May 2002 she became the then oldest woman to climb Mount Everest. Ten years later, in May 2012, she broke her own record,"
"Schmatz, Sigi Hupfauer and a Sherpa climber reached the summit via the north-east face. In the same year, a Spanish expedition led by Jaume Garcia Orts could reach only to . The first Japanese women expedition led by Kyoko Sato was successful on May 4, 1974, when all members reached the summit after a failed attempt from the East ridge. They were thus the first women team (Naoko Nakaseko, Masako Uchida, Mieko Mori) with Jambu Sherpa to climb an peak. However, one climber died on May 5 when she fell between camps 4 and 5. In the pre-monsoon period of"
"to conquer: Mt Everest (World's & Asia's highest peak) May 2013 Mt Elbrus (Europe's highest peak) Aug 2013 Mt Aconcagua (S. America's highest peak) Jan 2014 Mt Carstensz Pyramid (Australasia's highest peak) Mar 2014 (World's youngest and 2nd pair of twins) Denali (N America's highest peak) Jun 2014 Mt Kilimanjaro (Africa's highest peak) Feb 2012 and O3 Jul 2015 By climbing each of the seven summits together, they have achieved unique distinction of becoming World's First siblings and first twins to do so. After the Seven Summits, on 28 December 2014 they reached South Pole on skies and on 21"
"In April 2014, her attempt to climb Mt. Everest failed as the ascent to the summit was officially barred after a major avalanche killed more than ten mountaineers at 5,800 m elevation. She was not hurt by the accident. In July 2015, she ascended Carstensz Pyramid (4,884 m), completing her fifth summit of the ""Eight Highest Peaks"", in a group of six mountaineers from South Korea, Australia, France and Sweden. On May 21, 2018 she became the first Turkish woman to summit Mount Everest from the Nepal side, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, the Earth's"
"also the first New Zealand or Australian woman to climb the highest mountains on each of the seven continents (Carstensz list) in a feat known as the Seven Summits. Burke commenced the endeavour by successfully reaching the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro on 6 August 2010, and completed the last of the Seven Summits (in the 'Bass' list) with her successful climb of Mount Elbrus in Russia on 25 July 2012. She completed the 'Messner' list on 15 January 2013, on successful completion of her Carstensz Pyramid climb. She reached the summit of Mount Everest on 20 May 2011. Burke is"
"Nepalese mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, made the first successful ascent of the highest peak on Earth, Mount Everest (29 May 1953). The mountains were informally called ""Norgay Montes"" by the New Horizons team, but that name was later changed from ""Norgay"" to ""Tenzing"". On 7 September 2017, the name ""Tenzing Montes"" was officially approved together with the names of Tombaugh Regio and twelve other nearby surface features. Several massifs within Tenzing Montes reach elevations of more than 4 km above the surrounding terrain. The table below is based on Table 3 in . The Tenzing"
"2010, Lei summited Mt Everest and became the first Chinese woman and the first Asian American who has successfully climbed the highest peak on each of the seven continents and skied to both the North Pole and the South Pole. Time table of Lei's Adventure: 2003 Kilimanjaro 2005 Elbrus 2007 Mt McKinley (Denali) 2007 Carstensz Pyramid (Puncak Jaya) 2007 Vinson Massif 2008 South Pole 2008 Aconcagua 2008 North Pole 2010 Mt Everest Wang Lei (mountaineer) Wang Lei () is the first Chinese woman and the first Asian American who have climbed the Seven Summits and skied to both the North"
"the fossil-bearing limestone that crowns Mount Everest, the nature and impact of ice in the region (such as the icefall), and the overall stratigraphy (including limestone, metamorphic rocks, pelites, and quartzites). In May, Tamae Watanabe became the oldest woman to reach the summit, at the age of 73. She broke her own record, set in 2002 at the age of 63. The retired office worker lives at the base of Mount Fuji, and had climbed many other peaks including Denali, the Eiger, and Lhotse. She climbed with a group of four, and beat a competing 72-year-old woman who was trying"
"climbed the North Face of the Matterhorn. This was the first time women climbed such a difficult wall. In 1978 with Krystyna Palmowska, Wanda Rutkiewicz and Irena Kesa she climbed the North Face of the Matterhorn in winter. Again they were the first women to succeed and it created a sensation in the European mountaineering world. Anna Czerwińska was a member of the Polish Gasherbrums Expedition in 1975. In 1979 with Krystyna Palmowska they climbed a new route, Rakaposhi (7788 m), in Pakistan. On June 30, 1983 they both climbed Broad Peak, Rocky Summit - Czerwińska, Main, Snowy Summit 8047"
"narrow couloir. After summiting, they descended the southeast ridge, bivouacking high up. Since the initial ascent, there have only been another nine summiters with five expeditions through the Hornbein Couloir, the last one in 1991. 10 May 1980: Japanese Tsuneoh Shigehiro and Takashi Ozaki made the first full ascent of the north face up the Japanese and Hornbein Couloirs from the Rongbuk Glacier in Tibet. 20 May 1986: Canadians Sharon Wood and Dwayne Congdon climbed a new west shoulder route from the Rongbuk Glacier and continued to the summit via the Hornbein Couloir. She became the first North American woman"
"reach the summit of Kilimanjaro. Some of her positions and accolades Suzanne Al Houby Suzanne Al Houby, a Palestinian mountain climber, was the first Arab woman to climb Mount Everest on May 21, 2011 and the seven summits. Previously, she was also the first Arab woman to climb many other mountains: Mont Blanc, Elbrus, Aconcagua, Vinson, Denali, Carstensz Pyramid and many others.and the first Arab woman to summit Denali in Alaska. Originally, Suzanne's family comes from Jaffa, Palestine, she got her higher education in the United States and lived most of her life in the United Arab Emirates. She is"
"subsequent failed claim of a solo ascent by a later member of the same expedition. All three women went on to Everest in 1984 but did not make the summit although Sonam Paljor and Dorjee Lhatoo did. Dorjee Lhatoo climbed Sunanda Devi in 1975, she also participated in the 1976 Indo-Japanese expedition. This was followed in 1981 by another Indian Army expedition of the Parachute Regiment, which attempted both main and eastern peaks simultaneously. The expedition had placed a memorial to Nanda Devi Unsoeld at the high altitude meadow of Sarson Patal prior to the attempt. The successful attempt lost"
"and Turkish woman to climb the ""Eight Summits"", an extension of the Seven Summits with addition of Mt. Carstensz in the Oceania continent. The first Turkish seven summiter is Nasuh Mahruki. Only twelve women in the world have completed the ascent to the ""Eight Summits"" to date. Gülnur Tumbat climbed the McKinley (6,194 m), Aconcagua (6,959 m), Kilimanjaro (5,895 m), Elbrus (5,642 m), and Carstensz Pyramid (4,884 m). She notes that her most challenging ascent was to Aconcagua, the highest point in South America, where she climbed solo and without the assistance of a professional mountain guide or a team."
"as preparation for her ascent of Everest Sinha and Susan Mahout, a USAF instructor, who had together climbed Mount Chaser Sangria () in 2012 under the guidance of Hendrick Pal started their ascent of Mount Everest. After a hard toil of 17 hours, Sinha reached the summit of Mount Everest at 10:55 am on 21 May 2013, as part of the Tata Group-sponsored ""Eco Everest Expedition"", becoming the first female amputee to scale Everest. She took 52 days to reach the summit. She wrote a small message thanking the Almighty on a wrapped cloth and pressed it in the snow."
"It was in 2011 that the professional thought about mountaineering came to her and she climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro (5895 M) with her husband. Two years later, Bahl climbed Mt. Elbrus (5642 M), Europe’s highest peak before becoming the third Indian woman climber to climb Mt. Vinson (4897 M) in Antarctica in 2014. One year later, she also scaled Mt. Aconcagua (6962 M), highest peak of South America. She is the Founder, Director and Image Consultant of Impact Image Consultants, a Gurgaon based professional company specializing in Image Consultancy. Additionally, as a Keynote Speaker and Trainer, she specialises in Mentoring and"
"days of climbing. Members Fransiska and Mathilda, respectively, were the 34th and 35th women to have scaled Mount Denali, which is the 'tallest mountain in the world' (Mount Everest is the 'highest peak in the world', technically a mountain that is situated above a large plateau). The two most senior members of the Indonesia Women Seven Summits Expedition reached an altitude of 7,020 meters on Mount Everest on May 1, 2018. However, they subsequently had to descend to the Advanced Base Camp (ABC) at 6,400 meters to maximize the acclimation process. After several days, on May 17, 2018, the duo"
"Everest for the fifth time. Also on May 21, Vilborg Arna Gissurardóttir became the first Icelandic woman to summit Everest, and Ada Tsang became the first Hong Kong woman to summit Everest. She completed the climb on her third attempt, together with a physiotherapist and mountaineer, Elton Ng. On May 22, Yusrina Ya'akob became the first female Malay Singaporean to summit Everest. The second blind man to summit Everest, Andy Holzer of Austria, reached the top on May 21 from the north, making him the first blind summiter since 2001. On May 22, 2017, Chris Bombardier became the first person"
"for the 1975 Polish Gasherbrum Expedition. She made the first ascent of Gasherbrum III (7952m) and the first female-only ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035m), also gaining the British height record for women. As a result, she was one of the first women to become a member of the Alpine Club. In 1978, she took part in the first women's expedition to Annapurna, where she was regarded as one of their best climbers. The expedition was fraught with problems, with multiple avalanches causing severe delays in their progress. She wrote to her husband ""It's the most dangerous mountain I've been on""."
"they were the first and only ones to obtain a permit from the Chinese government. A Japanese expedition approached the summit from the south and put Giichiro Watanabe, Yoshio Yamamoto and Katsumi Miyake on top on May 22, 1981, and five other expedition members 3 days later. Within three weeks, the American climbers Galen Rowell, Harold Knutsen and Kim Schmitz made an Alpine-style ascent over the East ridge of the NE summit to reach the main summit on June 9. They did not see any evidence of an earlier ascent. The very next day Siegfried Hupfauer, Hans Gaschbauer, Franz Lämmerhofer,"
"was able to scale Everest and returned safely. I’m happy and am keen to attempt climbing it again."" Mount Denali - North America highest peak 2010 unsuccessful. Mount Kilimanjaro- South Africa highest peak Tanzania Range 5,895 m successfully summited on dated 9 October 2014 (without oxygen) Mount Aconcagua - South America highest peak Andes Range 6,962 m successfully summited on 16 January 2015 (without oxygen) Mount Elbrus - Europe Highest peak Caucasus Range 5,642 m successfully summited on dated 31 July 2015 (without oxygen) Mount Kosciuszko - Australia Main Land 2,228 m successfully summited on 3 December 2015 (without oxygen),"
"Massif (1993), Mount Elbrus (1993), Mount Kilimanjaro (1993), Mount Kosciuszko (1994), and Puncak Jaya (1995). Hill finally reached the Mount Everest summit in 1996, thus becoming the second American woman to scale the Seven Summits, following Mary ""Dolly"" Lefever. Hill had attempted Everest twice before her successful ascent in 1996. In 1993, she reached on a guided expedition following the traditional South Col route. Then in 1994 she raised corporate sponsorship for an attempt climbing the difficult Kangshung Face, personally guided by Alex Lowe, but the expedition was turned back by avalanche danger on the mountain. Hill was one of"
"Sangeeta Sindhi Bahl Sangeeta S Bahl (born 9th Feb. 1965 in Jammu) is the Indian woman hailing from the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir who scaled the world's tallest mountain peak Mount Everest in May, 2018 and became the oldest Indian woman to have scaled the world's tallest peak (29,029 ft.), at the age of 53 years. She also became the first woman from Jammu and Kashmir to scale the mountain. In addition to this she is a former Miss India finalist in 1985. As per her the idea of mountaineering came to her from her husband in 2011."
"Central American woman to climb Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world and the so-called Third Pole of Planet, being the third largest ice storage of the globe. Subsequently, on December 28, 2011 began a new challenge in Antarctica after having skied 111.11 kilometers (equivalent to a terrestrial latitude) in a week, a woman got placed for the first time in history, the flag of Guatemala at the geographic South Pole. On Tuesday April 17, 2012, ended the challenge of the three poles of the planet, skiing 111.11 kilometers again, this time to the geographic north pole, which is"
"peaks - Cho Oyu, Manaslu and Everest. She survived an avalanche on Manaslu in 2012, when she was catapulted for several metres inside her tent. She made two unsuccessful attempts on a fourth 8000m peak, Lhotse, in 2014 and 2015. Both of these expeditions were cut short by major tragedies. In 2015 she narrowly avoided another avalanche at Everest Base Camp, when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake caused a serac to collapse on nearby Pumori. After the earthquake, she spent two months in Nepal working on the emergency response for the World Food Programme. In 2014 she was part of an international"
"with an artificial leg, and a person with epilepsy. Only two of the individuals in the group did not reach the summit. Heidi Zimmer is the first deaf woman to reach the summit of Mt. McKinley in Alaska. She is the first deaf individual to reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, as well as Mt. Elbrus in the Republic of Russia which has an elevation of 18,510 feet. She has a goal of completing the seven summits which consist of the highest peak in each continent. This is considered a huge accomplishment in the climbing world. Yasayuki Okobu,"
"Graham had reached the same point 34 years before. Kabru North was reached by C.R.Cooke on 18 November 1935, without oxygen. It remained the highest solo climb until 1953. According to the 1996 version of the Himalayan Journal (pp. 29–36), members of an Indian Army expedition reached the summit of Kabru IV in May 1994. Kabru South was also climbed by an Indian party in 1994. In 2004, a group of Serbian climbers unsuccessfully attempted the mountain. A series of avalanches forced the group to give up their goal. The north-northwest pillar of Talung was first climbed in 2015 by"
"nose, frostbite on her cheeks, and a clogged oxygen mask. Since 1953, approximately 2,500 people have reached the summit. The first person of African descent to have done so was South African Sibusiso Vilane in 2003. She graduated from Harvard University. Sophia Danenberg Sophia Danenberg (born 1972) is an American mountain climber best known as the first African American and the first black woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. She is biracial, with her father black and her mother Japanese. At 2 a.m. on May 19, 2006, Danenberg reached the top of Mount"
"Jane Lee (mountaineer) Jane Lee Zhen Zhen (born 1984) is a mountaineer, speaker and writer from Singapore. Co-founder and co-team leader of the Singapore Women's Everest Team, Lee is also the first female from Southeast Asia and the 37th woman in history to have scaled the Seven Summits, the highest peaks of the seven continents including Mount Kilimanjaro, Denali, Elbrus, Aconcagua, Vinson and Everest (Chomolungma). Lee studied at the National University of Singapore, graduating in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts (English Literature) (Honours). After successfully climbing up Mount Everest, Lee targeted the rest of the Seven Summits and promptly"